Jack Vance Quotes
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
Mandy Moore -
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
Madchen Amick -
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan -
I believe women are the glue of everything.
Weili Dai -
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine -
Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?
Safra A. Catz -
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
Felix Dennis -
I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
Gagan Narang -
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe -
During war, the laws are silent.
Quintus Tullius Cicero -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.
Daniel Bryan
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When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?
Nuhu Ribadu -
In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
Ian Doescher -
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
Andrew Potter -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
Belva Lockwood -
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Jack Vance